To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79017 Issue #|79017 Summary|Upon deletion of a paragraph, its format gets applied |to the following paragraph Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.2 Platform|PC URL| OS/Version|Windows XP Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P1 Subcomponent|editing Assigned to|mru Reported by|snofriacus
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 29 13:06:28 +0000 2007 ------- Upon deletion of a paragraph, its format gets applied to the following paragraph. Note: This glitch is not restricted to Windows XP. The same thing occurs under Ubuntu Linux. To see the glitch, create several paragraphs of text, and apply different styles to adjacent paragraphs. I used the heading styles for testing, but I believe the same glitch occurs regardless of the identity of the paragraph formatting. Choose one of the paragraphs and call it "paragraph 1". Call the following two paragraphs "paragraph 2" and "paragraph 3". Now put the cursor at the beginning of paragraph 2, press Shift, and press the down arrow (as many times as needed to select the whole paragraph). Now use Ctrl-X or the Delete key to delete paragraph 2. The format of paragraph 2 doesn't get deleted along with it. The format of paragraph 3 is deleted instead, and the format of paragraph 2 is now applied to paragraph 3. The following workaround may provide some insight into the nature of the problem. To select paragraph 2, put the cursor at the end of paragraph 1, then press Shift and move the cursor to the end of paragraph 2 (rather than the beginning of paragraph 3). Now upon deletion of the paragraph, the correct paragraph format is deleted along with it, and the neighboring paragraphs remain unchanged. Though this works, it would be an awkward way to have to edit, so I suspect this isn't the intended design. Some other editing operations do work fine without this awkward workaround. If paragraph 2 is just copied rather than deleted or cut, the correct style travels with it to wherever it is pasted. It seems that copying is fine It seems that pasting is fine But in deletion or cutting, something is amiss Further evidence of this is that a "paste" does not successfully reverse the action of a "cut". Going back once again to paragraphs 1, 2, & 3: Select paragraph 2 in the ordinary way - from the beginning of paragraph 2 to the beginning of paragraph 3. Cut it, then paste it back in. This should be a non-destructive operation, ending up just the same as it started. But paragraph 3 gets its format changed in the process, ending up with the paragraph 2 format assigned to it. In general I do like the way the paragraph formatting is handled. I notice that when two paragraphs are merged by deleting or backspacing over the paragraph mark, the format of the first paragraph is kept; unlike MS Word, where the format of the final paragraph is what is kept. The OpenOffice approach seems more natural and intuitive to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
